The City of Green Bay could direct millions of additional dollars toward the development of more housing working families can afford.

The City's Joint Review Board and Redevelopment Authority both on Aug. 12 approved an affordable housing extension resolutions to keep the I-43 Business Park tax incremental financing district open for an additional year. The action requires City Council approval before it can go into effect.

The TIF district was created in 2005 to pay to install infrastructure and utilities in what started as an industrial park and became a more general business park with a variety of uses. The infrastructure installed in the area east of Interstate 43 helped draw a variety of development that includes Aurora BayCare Medical Center, a Procter & Gamble distribution cente

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